CWN - November 29, 2012
The number of religious sisters in the United States fell from 57,113 to 55,045 in a one-year period, according to data in the 2011 and 2012 editions of The Official Catholic Directory.
During the same period:
- the number of priests fell slightly from 40,271 to 40,203
- the number of seminarians fell from 5,247 to 5,015, with most of the decline occurring among religious-order (and not diocesan) seminarians
- the number of religious brothers fell from 4,650 to 4,518
- the number of permanent deacons rose from 17,436 to 17,816
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